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标题：Doing the best one can: a new justification for the use of lotteries
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作者：Ittay Nissan-Rozen
期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：45-72
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：In some cases in which rational and moral agents experience moral uncertainty, they are unable to assign exact degrees of moral value—in a non arbitrary way—to some of the different acts available to them, and so are unable to choose with certainty the best act. This article presents a new justification for the use of lotteries in this kind of situation. It is argued that sometimes the only rational thing for a morally motivated agent to do here is to use a lottery
关键词：moral uncertainty; lotteries; indivisible goods